Bøker av Stanislaw Baranczak

Baranczak-a poet, critic, translator, and Polish emigre-supplies politico-cultural context for Herbert while analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. Herbert's poetry, he shows, is based on permanent confrontation-of Western tradition with the experience of an Eastern European, of classicism with modernity, of cultural myth with empiricism.

In essays on issues from censorship to underground poetry, Baranczak explores the role that culture-and particularly literature-has played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central Europe.